Norddalsfjorden is a branch off of the main Storfjorden in

Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal (; en, Møre and Romsdal) is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the town of Molde, while Ålesund is the ...

county,

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. The fjord is located in

Fjord Municipality Fjord is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sunnmøre. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Stordal. Other villages in the municipality include Valldal, Eids ...

and a small part is also in

Stranda Municipality Stranda is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Stranda. Stranda consists of three smaller villages and one larger central village ...

. The

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is long, when you include the

Tafjorden Tafjorden is an inner branch of the Norddalsfjorden/ Storfjorden in Fjord Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site West Norwegian Fjords. The fjord is located southeast of the village of Sylt ...

arm that stretches further east, it is in total. In the Middle Ages, the combined Norddalsfjorden and Tafjorden were probably called «Todarfjorden» (Tafjorden).

Norwegian County Road 63 Norwegian County Road 63 ( no, Fylkesvei 63 or ) is a Norwegian county road in Møre og Romsdal county and a very small part in Innlandet county, Norway. It begins at Norwegian National Road 15 along the lake Langvatnet in Skjåk Municipality in ...

and

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runs along the fjord and includes a ferry crossing between Eidsdal and Linge. In the 1960s villages Stranda-Liabygda-Eidsdal-Valldal-Norddal-Fjørå-Tafjord were still connected by a web of ferry crossings. The fjord's mouth sits to the west between the village of

Liabygda Liabygda is a village in Stranda Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is located on the northern shore of the Norddalsfjorden, just north of the mouth of the Sunnylvsfjorden. Liabygda and its immediate vicinity are separa ...

on the northern shore and mount Skrednakken on the southern shore. Further into the fjord, the villages of

Eidsdal Eidsdal is a village and valley in Fjord Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located along the south side of the Norddalsfjorden, about southwest of the municipal centre of Sylte and the village of Norddal lies about east of ...

and

Norddal Norddal is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It merged with Stordal municipality to establish the new Fjord municipality in 2020. It covered the easternmost part of the Sunnmøre region along the border with Oppland count ...

lie along the southern shore, and their respective rivers . Eidsdal is connected to Linge on the northern shore by a

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. A few kilometers east of Linge lies the village Sylte at the mouth of river Valldøla which runs through the large

Valldalen Valldalen (or sometimes just ''Valldal'') is a valley in Fjord Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located north of the Norddalsfjorden. The village of Sylte (which is also called Valldal) is located at the end of the valley ...

valley.Helland, Anund (1911): Norges land og folk. Topografisk-statistisk beskrevet : topografisk-statistisk beskrivelse over Romsdals amt. (2 volumes). Kristiania: Aschehoug. Further east lies the tiny village of Fjøra, at the mouth of

. The village of

Tafjord Tafjord is a village in Fjord Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is in a valley located at the end of the Tafjorden, about southeast of the municipal centre of Sylte, and just west of the borders of Reinheimen Nationa ...

lies at the end of the Tafjorden arm.

Gallery

Storfjorden, Norddalsfjorden.jpg, Norddalsfjorden as seen from Stranda-Liabygda ferry Groetet.jpg, The wide Norddalsfjorden in the distance, more narrow Tafjorden left Norddalsfjord-Tafjord.JPG, Norddalsfjorden close, Tafjorden behind Norddalsfjorden Dalsbygda.JPG, Norddal (Dalsbygda) at the fjord Norddalsfjorden 001.jpg, Junction of Norddalsfjorden and

Sunnylvsfjorden The Sunnylvsfjorden is a fjord in Stranda and Fjord in the Møre og Romsdal county of Norway. The long Sunnylvsfjorden is one of the innermost branches of the large Storfjorden. The fjord ranges from wide and reaches below sea level at its de ...

as seen from the north

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Fjords of Møre og Romsdal Fjord (municipality) Stranda {{MøreRomsdal-geo-stub

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